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I was trailing anyway so I figured I might as well. I'm claiming second place for haveing the dealbreaking vote :-)

Jarvis voting for us should have been predictable, as Vikings were his benefactor in several ways. 1) After taking one of his cities, we negotioated an arrangement to help him expand east. We could have just wiped him out, as we had cats and he did not. 2) That eastward expansion gave him the cusion to absorb the early Niklas-Bernout advance against him. 3) Viking withdrawal from the theatre was the bargaining chip to get Babylon out of theatre too. 4) Massive cash influx from us allowed him to upgrade to rifles, which appeared to have led to the final peace deal there. So in a real sense, he was the third party in our alliance.

Don't forget congrats to jeremy (stowell48) ... he played a large bulk of the turns (well coached, of course ;))

If the diplo had not worked, the next step would have been a nuclear slugfest, as Elkad and I had concluded that we needed to start that war before Morgan-Niklas beat us to SDI.

When elkad took over Spain from AI early, he felt a bit in a hole and was quite willing early on to make a long term deal with Vikings for one peaceful border and an eye to eventual PA. That allowed Vikings to control most of the action in the NW and mid North (directly or indirectly) in the mid game, which left us umolested for the entire game.

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Don't forget congrats to jeremy (stowell48) ... he played a large bulk of the turns (well coached, of course ;))

Indeed...congratulations Jeremy! And thanks as well for sticking with the game!

Unfortunately with the influx of first time players here at TG, many of them newer Civ players, we had more turnaround than normal. As a result, I don't think the game format quite satisfied the original objective with respect to mentoring. Still, the format itself was unique and created some interesting situations so I hope everyone got some fun from it.

Huge thanks, as always, to the regulars who joined the game to play AI nations and keep things rolling!

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I wish the diplo had failed, Man proj was 1 turn away and I wouldn't have waited for SDI. Pre emtive all round ;)

Did you time it to get rocketry at the same instant as well? We figured you would develop Manhattan, and we were ready to whip bomb shelters everywhere then start making the ICBMs. But I thought I saw you guys still lacking rocketry at games end?